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Investor charge drives big rise in cash purchases across prime London
New figures have shown that 40% of the properties purchased in Prime London over the last three months were bought in cash, as investors charged on the capital.
Historic Hackwood Park hits the open market
An important country pile in Hampshire has become one of the most significant open-market instructions of 2016 so far.
Record price achieved on Hyde Park Gardens Mews
Lurot Brand has tucked away a house on Hyde Park Gardens Mews at a punchy £2,326 per square foot, thereby earning the street the title of "W2's most expensive mews".
The buyer paid £3.
Rubies & Rusticarians: The five tribes revolutionising English village life
"The 21st-century village is not the quaint place of yesterday" says Strutt & Parker, as it analyses the evolution of the English idyll from twee Cranford to a dynamic mini-hub populated by Rusticarians,…
Chelsea Barracks apartments ‘already selling at £4,500 psf’
It's been claimed that Qatari Diar has already sold off a batch of super-prime units at Chelsea Barracks, ahead of the official launch later this year.
Lodha hires Savills man to drive London sales push
Lodha Group has poached a key member of Savills' international sales team to head up the marketing of its burgeoning central London pipeline.
Showtime for Stanhope as buyers descend on BBC Television Centre
BBC Television Centre developer Stanhope has reported being "overwhelmed" by the response from punters at Saturday's official sales launch, as some brave souls stuck out a cold, damp April night for…
Cash in the Attic: London’s untapped rooftop space worth ‘billions of pounds’
'If you have an expensive piece of land in any city centre in the world, you use it, but we have so much unused space in London and owners are unaware they can sell it'
Buyers bagging big discounts across PCL as vendors chop their prices
New stats have revealed the true extent to which prices are being slashed by vendors right across prime central London.
SDLT deadline drives ‘massive and unprecedented’ spike in UK transaction levels
March saw an extraordinary hike in transaction levels across the UK, according to the latest data from HMRC.
Graph: Savills Research
In Pictures: New developments with royal connections
It's Her Majesty's big day, but this year, instead of sending an amusing corgi-based card, we've decided to take a look at some of the capital's best new schemes with royal connections.
£19.5m neo-classical mansion hits the market in West Sussex
One of the most impressive new-build country mansions we've seen in a while has just come on at a shade under £20m.